would plague the Indiana native . Lafferty would be the benefactor , moving into the fourth spot with Barnes moving into the top five .
As the checkered flag flew , Snodgrass would take a fortyfive second lead over Riordan and Draper , making it a down under podium sweep . Lafferty would hold on for fifth with Barnes rounding out the top five . 760 Motorsports Husqvarna ’ s Thorn Devlin would come from way behind early to finish 6th , with Phoenix Honda ’ s Ruy Barbosa taking 7th . MCS Kawasaki ’ s Ben Herrera would finish ahead of Simon Johnson to take 8th , while Witkowski was able to salvage a top ten finish . “ Was back and forth with Gus for a bit there , and once I got around him , I tried keeping it consistent and not make any mistakes . The experience has definitely been helping out this year . I ’ m not panicking when I ’ m not up front like I would in the past and just managing the race better .” -Lyndon Snodgrass
Riordan spoke about the quick learning curve he ’ s been able to adapt to this year . “ Yeah , I ’ m stoked , and especially with Lyndon winning , Australia going 1-2 . But I ’ m getting used to it as I go and really enjoying it . I got the holeshot and swapped the lead with Lyndon the first few laps . He was able to gap me when we were going through some lapped riders , but we ’ d caught up to Strang
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